Neil Cerutti wrote:

> The underlying problem, of course, is the archaic flat-file
> format with fixed-width data fields. Even the Department of
> Education has moved on to XML for most of it's data files,

:(

I'm writing a small app, and was wondering the best way to store data. 
Currently the fields are separated by spaces. I was toying with the idea 
of using sqlite, yaml or json, but I think I've settled on CSV. Dull, 
but it's easy to parse for humans and computers.
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